Lab 6: Ecosomatics for (re)generative Futures (Deakin)

Meeri Creek, Coburg 
23 April
10am-1pm 

You are warmly invited to an ecosomatic workshop led by performance research-artist- environmentalists, Emily Bowman (Deakin) and Vanessa Chapple (RMIT), who together make up Soma Ontogeny. Come and engage in curated experiences of bodily attunement and deep listenning along the Merri Creek, Wurundjeri Country, to provoke ecological thinking. Sensing the multiple textures and atmospheres through the body, you will be provided with opportunities to express through guided drawing, mapping and movement practice, mobilising awareness and interconnectedness with the world. Venturing from the local neighbourhood house to the local waterway, we will return travelling by foot to finish in the garden for a shared lunch. This day includes an invitation to move and think with your own research questions, to investigate your bodied, sensory experience of place and time together in movement and conversation with others. What can connecting through body and ground offer to your research and thinking?

Note: the walk will be under 1km. Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes for the weather. Bring a water bottle and small notebook. We suggest a small backpack for ease.